Wonderful questions Madhav, thank you. The primary issue is simply lack of knowledge and wisdom - the people who allocate military funding have never heard of AGI x-risk as a serious thing beyond the movies. The person whose video I linked laughing was the head of AI R&D for the entire Pentagon.
I will endeavor to answer all of your questions whenever I wrote the next post on this topic. Thank you very much for the kind advice & interest.
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Thank you MRo; I very much appreciate the explanation and I will try to write a future post on same topic in a smarter style following your guidance. I really appreciate it and thank you for taking the time to care and help.
Understood, sorry for the mess up. Thank you for being kind.
Hi Matt, this is a great idea and the closest thing I am aware of is the street-level protests which have been held by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Maybe you and other EAs would consider getting involved in some of their marches? I haven’t been able to join any as they weren’t local to me, but I’ve donated to them and maybe you can too or you could march with them? https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
Would you be able to please include my startup Preamble, Inc. as a service provider in the tech category? https://preamble.com
Thank you for organizing all these resources in a way that makes them easy to find. This is pretty valuable for the community!
You also might want to partner with a project which is related to your called AVID, which is the AI Vulnerabilities Database.
https://avidml.org/
Submitted, thank you.
For what it’s worth, the contest host is an artist I know who has no connection to the EA movement. Also, there is no “holding society hostage” because the contest is designed to make it trivially easy to filter out all poison, just by looking for keywords. (wallabywinter & yallabywinter). Black hat hackers are already doing code example poisoning on stack overflow, and this contest simply seeks to raise awareness of that fact in the white-hat community.
Got it, thank you for the helpful feedback and I will seriously consider abandoning this approach.
You’re absolutely right. Unless tax policy catches up fast, stuff like the robots that replace fast food chefs is taking money out of the little guy’s wallet and right into the hands of the wealthiest business moguls who no longer have to pay human wages.
This fundamental issue is addressed very well in an excellent book you might love to check out, called Taxing Robots, by Prof. Xavier Oberson, a Swiss economist. Here’s the book on Amazon: https://a.co/d/eWjvuWE and here’s a summary: https://en.empowerment.foundation/amp/taxing-robots-by-xavier-oberson-professor-at-geneva-university-attorney-at-law-1
After getting even a page in, the core premise of the book seemed so obvious in retrospect, but hasn’t caught on as a possible solution: we need to fix the fact that algorithms and robots don’t pay income tax! Income tax disincentivizes human labor, thus effectively subsidizing robots! This needs to be fixed!
There are two possible solutions:
Left-wing approach: tax algorithmic labor at a similar or higher rate as human labor
Right-wing approach: repeal income tax! Make entitlement cuts to help fix the budget but also add back lost tax revenue by making so-called “Pigouvian” taxes on harmful activities like pollution.
Though my politics lean a bit more left, I think this is an area where republicans have the ideological advantage, as getting rid of income tax and standing up a new carbon tax is doable, Whereas in the dem’s solution, you need to somehow define what is labor-saving automation in the tax code, which seems really hard to define fairly due to the influence of special interests.
Though I voted for Obama and Biden, I would happily vote for DeSantis if he ran on repealing income tax and fixing the budget gap in other ways that don’t penalize human workers!